I have a downfall. While everyone is in debt after the holiday season, I’m out shopping!  Sometimes that’s not really great, because even though I’m getting humongous deals, I spend a lot more—because I’m getting deals. Faill. The best time of year to shop is in late December and also in January though! hee hee. I’m already starting to shop birthday presents late in the year, and Christmas present ideas. Can’t go wrong with budgeting all year long and not being in debt when the holiday season rolls around.

I was going to shop online with IKEA to buy the bed frame that I wrote about and I just think it’s probably smarter right now, if I just save my money and buy something when I can actually go to the store, instead of paying $100 for shipping it to my place. So, thanks for the opinions but le sigh. I will not be purchasing the black/brown IKEA headboard for $400! I think I’ll just put the money that I was saving for the frame, towards my car savings.

Contradicting what I was originally saying, the other morning I bought a butt-load off the Abercrombie’s Women’s Clearance section online.  Gah, I love a good sale. I got a sick amount of clothes for < $100 (under a hundred is key, here folks. If you go over $100 in your shopping bag, you’re slapped with a shipping charge much larger.)

I put together a little image of what I purchased. So happy! Check it out:

Initially I had picked out a nice red tee (like the top left yellow one) but I forgot to add it to my cart. Oh well! It all arrived two days after I hit “purchase now!” and I’m wearing my striped green one today. Yipper! I may return the $18.90 shirt. It looks weird. I also purchased three items from Hollister, but am too lazy to put together another image. Shame on me…

I swear. The weather better cooperate with my plans on the second last weekend in February or I will freak. BFF is driving down to my place, from Ottawa for a good ol’ shopping bonanza with yours truly. I’m super stoked, as she’ll be staying at my place with my roomies. Hope they’re okay with it. Haven’t asked them yet. One of them (who somewhat looks after the house) told me it would be okay for my boyfriend to stay over. But why would I do that when we can have an apartment to ourselves at his place? Back on topic. I rarely get to see my best friend. Ever since we both moved to Ontario, from Newfoundland (she’s 6hrs away), I see her maybe two times a year!

Anyway, I’ll bring it up to them in the next little while. But oooh. I’ve got stuff planned out already! She’ll arrive on a Saturday, and from there we can go to Toronto that day, or do some shopping in the city on Sunday. But Sunday’s a lot of places are closed, which is bummer—but whatev, it’ll suffice if that’s the plan. When J & I get together, we know how to have fun. hehe! Usually I bus it into Toronto by myself, since there aren’t many female acquaintances that I am… acquainted with (?). Which is cool, I don’t mind shopping by myself, in fact I’m pretty used to it! Having someone there with me will be different. A good different.

So, yayyyyy for that!

This reminds me. I need to stock up on groceries then for her arrival! I eat poorly 3 days out of the week when I’m at my own place. Cooking for one? Not so fun!